Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 27
Rage began to gnaw in Fionn’s soul, and a red haze danced and flickered before his eyes.
Who acts: Rage, red haze · What happens: begin, gnaw, dance, flicker · To what, where: soul, eyes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rage, red haze), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 gnaw | mark |
| 4 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 soul | case |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gnaw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 danced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 danced | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 haze | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 haze | amod |
| 13 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 began | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flickered | cc |
| 16 | flickered | flicker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 danced | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flickered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Rage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | gnaw | to-infinitive | Rage not said here | Fionn's soul | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | participle | a red haze | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flicker | participle | a red haze not said here | haze's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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